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In the Studio

Watercolor Sketch in Art Rage

by Barbara Hartsook on January 15, 2011 · 17 comments

in In the Studio

The other day I drove into our small village and came to an abrupt stop by the cold creek that runs through it. The creek never freezes, and in the winter the geese and ducks who’ve remained up north like to sit on the water. Warming their behinds maybe?Often steam rises when the water is [...]

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Do We Doodle to Doodle, Solve a Problem, Find a Design?

by Barbara Hartsook on January 22, 2010 · 34 comments

in In the Studio,Personal Growth

Why do we doodle? Just to pass the time? To find a design? To examine patterns? If I have a pen in hand and paper near by, I’m going to doodle. My name, a curved line, what’s being said by someone else — and that may also be in a curved line — or sometimes [...]

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Name that Painting in Six Words

by Barbara Hartsook on January 15, 2010 · 12 comments

in In the Studio

I’m not very good at naming things. I agonize over headlines and story titles, anything that must be told quickly and completely. I love words, you see. They tell pictures… Even giving title to a painting challenges me — I guess because I want the viewer to relate visually and emotionally and create their own [...]

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Life-Learning, from a Teacher’s Heart and Pen…

by Barbara Hartsook on September 13, 2008 · 9 comments

in In the Studio,Inspiration

One teacher, the kind of teacher we hope our kids and their kids can have at least once in their classrooms, writes a blog called Teacher Time. She paints such wonderful stories with her words, her poetry. Stories that move in the mind. Like paintings that trigger a memory, we can say Yes! I’ve been [...]

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